1 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 4 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:12,479 Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 5 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: I want to share with you from John chapter six, 7 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,959 Speaker 1: verse forty eight through fifty. And if you want to 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: join me on the app that you have on your phone, 9 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: or if you brought a physical copy of God's Word. 10 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 1: If not, we'll just put it on the screen there 11 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 1: for you. I'll be sharing from the NIV nineteen eighty 12 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: four version. No, I'm serious, there's different ones, so you'll 13 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: see a few of the words are different. That was 14 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: not a joke, but they change it, they revise it, 15 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:48,239 Speaker 1: and so this may be a few words different than 16 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 1: what you're reading and what I normally preach from. But 17 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: listen to this Jesus. It says, I am the bread 18 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: of life. Your forefathers ate the man in the desert, 19 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 1: yet they die. But here is the bread that comes 20 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: down from Heaven, which a man may eat and not die. 21 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: I like that so much when I read it I'm 22 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: gonna go back for seconds. Let's go back. Let's go back, 23 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: Let's read the whole thing again. That's what you came 24 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: for anyway, is the word of God. That thing came 25 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 1: alive to me last night I was preaching it. I 26 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,199 Speaker 1: was talking to my pastor, Pastor Craig Rochelle, after church 27 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: on the porch. I started pacing all around the backyard 28 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,199 Speaker 1: telling him how these verses just have been coming alive 29 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: for me. I was preaching to him on the phone. 30 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: Whether he wanted to hear it or not. I think 31 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 1: he put me on speaker or mute or something like that. 32 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: When cut the grass, but it said, I am the 33 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: bread of life. Your forefathers ate the man in the desert, 34 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: yet they die. But here is the bread. Somebody said, 35 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: here is the bread. Here is the bread that comes 36 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: down from Heaven, which a man may eat and not die. 37 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: I want to use just as a title today expiration date, 38 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: and touch somebody next to you and say check the label. Amen, 39 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: you may be seated. It's so crazy how you can 40 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 1: think you really know somebody for years and then they 41 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,079 Speaker 1: just do something that makes you question everything you thought 42 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: you knew about them. You sound like you're going through something, 43 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: are they sitting next to you? I mean, I can 44 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: tell you Holly's favorite movies, her favorite color, her favorite stores, 45 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: her favorite brands within her favorite stores. I know a 46 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: lot of things about that woman. I know her favorite books, 47 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: audio books. I know her favorite book club that she's 48 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: having this week, what she's reading for her book club 49 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: this week. But even sometimes in the context of a 50 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: marriage that you really think you know somebody, they would 51 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: just shock you. The other day, she horrified me because 52 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: I thought I knew her so well until I went 53 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 1: in the refrigerator and I pulled out some cheese. I 54 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 1: was just going to eat a few blocks of cheddar 55 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 1: from my low carb lifestyle, says for a snack, And 56 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: I looked at it and it said it was expired 57 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 1: three months ago. Fridge was so full, you know, But 58 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: I saw that, so as I'm going to throw it away, 59 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: she stands in front of me and blocks me from 60 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: putting the cheese. She says, oh, oh, you gotta smell 61 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: it first, and I'm like, no, babe, I don't. It 62 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: says right here on the label it's expired. And she said, oh, 63 00:03:53,680 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: I feed you expired food all the time, and she said, 64 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: the expiration date is just a suggestion. I'm like the 65 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 1: devil is a lie o. Smell it. You know, you 66 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: think you know somebody, turns out they're poisoning you trying 67 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: to collect that life insurance. Want to see about that 68 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: term life insurance. But you know it really should be 69 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:40,720 Speaker 1: in your relationship with God that you think you know him, 70 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: you think you know what he's like, and just as 71 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: your life experiences accumulate, and just the ways that you 72 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 1: witness Him working in your life that you didn't expect 73 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: and that you didn't predict and that did not fit 74 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: your preconceived notions of what God was like eighteen years ago. 75 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 1: He doesn't change, but the way that we see him 76 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: should and must. It must expand, it must. Y'all won't 77 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: like this word because you think it's like an atheist word. 78 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: Evolve to include the parts of who He is that 79 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: we didn't know about in our arrogance and our pride, 80 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: because as we've become broken by the trials of life, 81 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: it leaves spaces for God to get in. And he 82 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 1: couldn't get in when we were all sealed up type 83 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: by thinking we were perfect. But then when you live 84 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:33,279 Speaker 1: a little while wave at me in the back. When 85 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 1: you live a little while, you get about to that 86 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 1: age where you start to say, well, I thought I 87 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: saw everything. I thought I knew who was a good 88 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,799 Speaker 1: Christian and who wasn't I thought I knew. I thought, 89 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 1: I thought I knew what God would always do and 90 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 1: what God was always like. But he was just always 91 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 1: surprising them. In the person of Jesus Christ, as he 92 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 1: walked the earth, he was showing them progressively who he was, 93 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: and he wasn't changing to be something that he wasn't. 94 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 1: They were just seeing what he had been all along. 95 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 1: That required a sort of rewiring because if you go 96 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 1: off of what they thought in the Old Testament, they 97 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: saw a lot of wrath and vengeance because that was 98 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: the way that they saw God through that lens. But 99 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: as you track through the Redemptive history, the God of 100 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: the Bible is revealed as one who not only is 101 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 1: full of love and full of grace, but he is love. 102 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 1: He is grace. See it doesn't say God has love. 103 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: God is love. We beheld his glory, the glory as 104 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: of the only begotton of the Father, full of grace 105 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: and truth. He was always full of grace and truth. 106 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: We just beheld it in the person of Christ. But 107 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: it's progressive. And there is a reason that God does 108 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: not show you everything all at once. It's called mercy. 109 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: If he shows you the whole thing, you would die, 110 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: you would give up, you would quit, and you would 111 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 1: be so overwhelm. So because he is kind and because 112 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 1: he is wise, he progressively shows you himself, and he 113 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 1: progressively shows you his purpose for your life. So you 114 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 1: can't figure it out all at once. And if you 115 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: are a planner aka control freak, this will stress you out. 116 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: It stressed the disciples out. He would not tell them everything. 117 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: They would show up to preach you. I'm a preach 118 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: a little bit. In fact, it's worse than that, okay, 119 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: John chapter six, He's like, let's get away. John the 120 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 1: Baptist has just been beheaded. Things are going crazy. Let's 121 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: get away. He didn't tell him there'd be a crowd 122 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: waiting on the other side, not because he didn't know, 123 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: but probably because he knew they wouldn't go with him 124 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: if they knew. So some things God does not show 125 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: you about what's waiting for you on the other side 126 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: because he knows you won't go if he tells you 127 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: what's there, so he'll get you there and then show 128 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: you the reason that he came to begin with. Well, 129 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: he starts healing people right, he starts blessing, he starts teaching. 130 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: It gets late the disciples. I know you've heard this 131 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:56,679 Speaker 1: story before, even if you only went to church once. 132 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: It's like Hall of Fame Bible story. Five thousand men, 133 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: women and children, five loaves of bread, two fish, one 134 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: little boy who Peter beat up and took his lunch. 135 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: I put that in as a it's a speculation. It's 136 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: a speculation just thinking about how that boy gave his lunch. 137 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: I have kids. I've never seen them voluntarily give it 138 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: anything to the Lord and so or anybody. But but 139 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: there's there's this sense in which they they were, they 140 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: were they were gleaning what they could about the identity 141 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: of this Christ that they chose to follow by the 142 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: activities that they saw him do. And yet what what 143 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: God confusing was that a lot of times people would 144 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 1: get so caught up in what he did that they 145 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: would miss the point of who he was. So John 146 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: gives us seven statements in his Gospel alone that he 147 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 1: collects that start with the name of God that was 148 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 1: revealed to Moses at the Burning Bush. I am this 149 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 1: is the first one. I am the bread of life. 150 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 1: And how many are grateful that the first thing that 151 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:11,959 Speaker 1: Jesus wanted to be identified with was sustenance carbohydrates. How 152 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 1: many are grateful that the first thing he wanted you 153 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: to know is I am not only your provider. I 154 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: am your provision. If I'm just your provider, then you 155 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: need what comes from my hand. But if I am 156 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: your provision, you can trust my heart to know that, 157 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: even if it's not coming your way, everything you need 158 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: for life and godliness is in me. I am the 159 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: bread of life. I am the light of the world. 160 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,079 Speaker 1: If you can't see your next step, it's all right. 161 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: I'll give you enough light for the next step that 162 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 1: I've called you to take, not the next fifteen hundred. 163 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: It is a progressive revelation. I am the gate that 164 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: means you come in through me, you go out through me. 165 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 1: Church is not the gate. Other people are not the gate. 166 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 1: They don't get to decide what your life becomes or 167 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: what it doesn't. I am the Gate. I am the 168 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: good Shepherd. I will lead you through the valley of 169 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: the shadow of death. It's just a shadow, because I 170 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 1: am the resurrection and the life. Even the things that 171 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:17,079 Speaker 1: have died in your life are subject to resurrection. I 172 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: serve notice on dead bones. If the breath of God 173 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: hits the bones in the valley, they have to rise 174 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: up and live in the name of the Lord. I 175 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 1: am the vine, the true vine. There's imitators, there's substitutes, 176 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:37,079 Speaker 1: but they can't sustain you. I am the bread of life. 177 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 1: And in order to get them to see it, he 178 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: has to bring them all the way back to their experiences, 179 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: and many of these experiences happen before they weerever around. 180 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 1: And in order to get you to see that God 181 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 1: is your provider, I want to show you something from 182 00:10:55,600 --> 00:11:00,080 Speaker 1: Exodus chapter sixteen that really speaks to me about and 183 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: how in some seasons of my life I feel like 184 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:07,959 Speaker 1: the demand is greater than the supply. The disciples weren't 185 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 1: the first one that got put in a situation that 186 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: was too much for them. So I'm preaching to people 187 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: who are looking at too much in an area of 188 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 1: your life today. And I believe, if nothing other than 189 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: the device that is in your pocket, we are living 190 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: in a time of too much, too much information. They're 191 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: showing us now through studies on compassion fatigue, that by 192 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: knowing everything bad that happens in the world, we are 193 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 1: becoming unable to mobilize to do anything about the real 194 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: things that we can affect, because we are so overwhelmed 195 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:48,679 Speaker 1: with too much, too much. The Disciples saw the crowds. 196 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: They said, it's getting late, Jesus. This is John chapter six, 197 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: before he said I'm the Bread of life. This is 198 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: what led up to that statement. This is the story 199 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:59,079 Speaker 1: behind the statement. He wasn't just saying something out of context. 200 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:02,439 Speaker 1: He took the bred and multiplied it and everybody was fed. 201 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: But before that happened, the disciples tendency was like the 202 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:08,199 Speaker 1: same tendency we have when it's just too much, Send 203 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 1: them away, send them away. It's just too much. I 204 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 1: can't fix it all. It's too much. It's too much debt, financially, 205 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 1: I don't even know where to start digging out of this. 206 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 1: It's just it's just too much. It's too much, too 207 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 1: much on my schedule, it's too much. And then if 208 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 1: the if the spirit of too much stays on you 209 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 1: too long, it'll become the spirit of not enough. And 210 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:44,359 Speaker 1: so then you start evaluating your potential on the basis 211 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 1: of your experiences and and what God is so good 212 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: at in moments like these in our lives. If you're 213 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 1: in a moment like that in your life, and I 214 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 1: know I certainly have been where where you start sending 215 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: opportunities away because you don't believe you have the reces 216 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 1: to meet the need, you can relate with this passage 217 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 1: and this statement, I am the bread of life. So 218 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,199 Speaker 1: recently and I'm going to share with you exit of 219 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 1: sixteen in a minute. I didn't forget, but I started 220 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 1: noticing that I was turning down things that I believe 221 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: God wanted me to do, but it wasn't even because 222 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: I was too busy to do them. I started to 223 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 1: feel like I didn't have enough to give, and it 224 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: started scaring me that maybe I was going to get 225 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: out there to try to do it and I wouldn't 226 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: have what people expected me to have. So I started 227 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 1: to send stuff away that God was trying to bring 228 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,080 Speaker 1: to me to multiply his provision and to use me, 229 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: which is what I wanted. But when you stay in 230 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 1: the spirit of too much long enough, it becomes a 231 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 1: deep feeling of not enough. And I believe that I'm 232 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 1: looking at people today. I believe it's a cultural epidemic 233 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,599 Speaker 1: that we have never been in a time where we 234 00:13:56,679 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: have felt more deprived and depleted and insufficient to face 235 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 1: life's challenges, because we are constantly exposed to the world's 236 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 1: entire need, all at once. So Jesus says, your fathers 237 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: ate Manna in the wilderness. Last week, I talked about 238 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 1: the wilderness, and I talked about finding your water in 239 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: dry places, that God will always put a rock where 240 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 1: water will come from, even in the driest, most difficult 241 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 1: seasons of your life. And how that when you're too 242 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: hungry or to thirsty, you become susceptible to substitutes, which 243 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 1: is why you can be tempted to turn stones into bread. 244 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 1: The Wilderness passage, which Jesus demonstrated by overcoming temptation and 245 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 1: the nation of Israel succumbed to the temptation, is mentioned 246 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 1: in Exitus sixteen. Remember that they came through the Red Sea. 247 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 1: They had been in Egypt for a long time, suffering 248 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: under slavery. They came through the Red Sea. They dwelt 249 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: in a place called the wilderness. That wasn't the name 250 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: of it. It was several stops along the way for 251 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: a little while after they left Egypt. Apparently they had 252 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: some snack packs, but at the point that the food 253 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 1: ran out, they were caught in an interesting situation, just 254 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 1: like the disciples in John six where we're in a 255 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 1: remote place and we don't have enough to do what 256 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 1: we need to do. And I want you to look 257 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: at the scripture because it's kind of a test that 258 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: some of you are dealing with right now, the do 259 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: you trust me now? Test. You get so many opportunities 260 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: in your life to trust God again, and every time 261 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: you trust him on a different level, in a different scenario, 262 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: you see a different dimension of who He is and 263 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: what he can do. Now, look at this in Exodus 264 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: chapter sixteen, if I can ever find it, Yeah, here 265 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: it says the whole israre like community. Right there first 266 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 1: one the hole is your like community. Set out from 267 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: Elam and came to the hazard of Sin, which is 268 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 1: between Elim and Sinai on the fifteenth day of the 269 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 1: second month, after they had come out of Egypt, where 270 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: they had been for four hundred and thirty years. In Egypt, 271 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 1: where they initially went to escape of famine, that was 272 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 1: in Canaan, but then in Egypt, the place where they 273 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 1: went to escape the famine became the place where they 274 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: were enslaved by Pharaoh. We dealt with that last week. 275 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: Watched the message. It's free on YouTube and you have 276 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 1: no excuse not to watch it. Download the podcast, download 277 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: the app, and watch the message. But where it brings 278 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: us to is they're out of Egypt, but they're not 279 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: into Canaan. They are in a place where they need 280 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: God's provision, but they have not fully accessed the promise 281 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: of God. I call this the disappointment of deliverance. It's 282 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: when God brings you out of something, but not all 283 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 1: the way into anything either. It's when you raise your 284 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: hand to receive Christ and you still have issues with 285 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 1: your anger. It's when you believe God touched Darren worship 286 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 1: and you still have bursidis in your right knee when 287 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,440 Speaker 1: you go home. It's when God makes you a promise 288 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 1: and speaks a word concerning your daughter and her attitude 289 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 1: gets worse on Tuesday than it was last Wednesday. It's 290 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: the disappointment of deliverance when He brings you out, brings 291 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: you through, brings you forward, but now they're in a 292 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,160 Speaker 1: stuck place. Really to wonder what will we eat? And 293 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: they don't pass the test because instead of gratitude for 294 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: the grace of God that brought them this far, they 295 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 1: begin to grumble about what's ahead now list is in 296 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: Bible times. We don't deal with this anymore. You know, 297 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 1: the Bible's outdated times have change. But they they came 298 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:51,159 Speaker 1: out of Egypt. Watch this when the expiration date on 299 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:55,919 Speaker 1: their season of suffering had reached the ears of heaven. 300 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: Everything you go through in your life, everything that even 301 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 1: the enemy does in your life, anything you do to 302 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: yourself in your life, it can't go on forever. And 303 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: here's why it can't go on forever, because you are 304 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:17,159 Speaker 1: not in charge of the calendar of events of the 305 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:21,360 Speaker 1: purpose of God in the world. So even if the 306 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 1: devil is messing with you in your mind, even if 307 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 1: the devil is messing with you in your family, he 308 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,720 Speaker 1: can't just mess with you for as long as he wants, 309 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 1: as much as he wants. God had to give the 310 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 1: devil permission to hurt job. He didn't just get to 311 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:39,479 Speaker 1: do what he wanted to do for as long as 312 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: he wanted to do it. God said, now that's enough. 313 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 1: Somebody shout that's enough. And when God saw his people 314 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,959 Speaker 1: struggling in Egyptian slavery at a certain point, he said, 315 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 1: now that's enough. And when he spoke to Moses, he said, 316 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:56,120 Speaker 1: I've seen my people mistreated, and I see how their 317 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 1: backs are breaking with heavy labor, and I hear how 318 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 1: they're crying out to me, and that's enough, and I 319 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,760 Speaker 1: came down to deliver my people and bring them out 320 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:08,880 Speaker 1: of Egypt. Every season of suffering, every season of struggle, 321 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: has an expiration date. God is suffering. God is in charge. 322 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 1: The enemy doesn't run my life. So when that ended 323 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 1: and a month passed, they've come through the Red Sea. 324 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:33,399 Speaker 1: But now they need something to eat. And this is 325 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 1: why I thought Jesus brought it up to say, I 326 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: am the bread of life, just like I did it. 327 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:42,360 Speaker 1: Then watch this just like I did it in that 328 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: period of time, just like I took care of you before, 329 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: just like you didn't know how before and I did somehow. 330 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 1: I am just like I was, I am, and just 331 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: like I am, I will be. I haven't been giving 332 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:03,159 Speaker 1: y'all any love this whole sermon, but this is for 333 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 1: this section, fifth row, this section. I am, I was, 334 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,439 Speaker 1: I will be. I am I was. How you know 335 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 1: I am because I was? How do you know I 336 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,160 Speaker 1: will be? Because I am? How you know I am 337 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:19,639 Speaker 1: because I was. There is a testimony in your life 338 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: to the faithfulness of God that will enable you to 339 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 1: trust Him in this season, and you just get to 340 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 1: do it over and over again. If you trust God 341 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 1: with one test, you get to trust him with another. 342 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 1: Algebra two is your reward for passing Algebra one. I 343 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: don't like that. You don't get to graduate. You just 344 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 1: get to trust him again. I will never forget what 345 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 1: Holly said to me when Elijah was born. She goes, Oh, 346 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 1: you don't get to quit worrying about your kid after 347 00:20:55,800 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: you have them, because you know we're rubbing oil her 348 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,639 Speaker 1: stomach and feeding her avocados or whatever. We you know 349 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:08,400 Speaker 1: everything prenatal. What to expect when you're expecting. By the way, 350 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:15,360 Speaker 1: that book sucks, I'm on my money back, but it 351 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: put an expectation on us. It is the disappointment of delivery. Oh, 352 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: I had the kid. Now I got to check on 353 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: them all through the body. I'm worried when they're crying, 354 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:31,879 Speaker 1: I'm worried when they're quiet. I'm worried. And now not 355 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,919 Speaker 1: only do I get to trust the life of my 356 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 1: child to God when they're a toddler, because that's scary. 357 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,360 Speaker 1: You run around the house protecting them from everything. You know, Well, 358 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 1: the first one, I mean we have three by the 359 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 1: third one figured out. But the first one, you know, 360 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:56,400 Speaker 1: you're plugging electrical sockets with plastic things. Then you get 361 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 1: to trust God when they're a teenager, and I'll make 362 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:08,360 Speaker 1: one of those plastic plugs for their friends. So now 363 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 1: it's like, hey, trust me now, trust me deeper, trust 364 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:19,879 Speaker 1: me broader, trust me greater I am because I was 365 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 1: and I will be too. It's the kind of God 366 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 1: that I am. The bread of life. Here is the bread. 367 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna show you two things that keep us 368 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 1: from trusting him. Now, two things that keep us from 369 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 1: trusting Now they're in the passage. It says in the desert, 370 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 1: the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. I wanted 371 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: it to say they were grateful to Moses and Erin 372 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 1: because of all the courage that it took to lead 373 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: us out of Egypt and stand before Pharaoh and last 374 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,399 Speaker 1: through the duration of the ten plagues. But no, people. 375 00:22:55,480 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: People tend to forget people tend to focus on what's missing, 376 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,439 Speaker 1: and then they tend to have a selective memory. Because 377 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,959 Speaker 1: sometimes what keeps you you want to take notes, this 378 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,679 Speaker 1: is the only chance you have the whole sermon. What 379 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,119 Speaker 1: keeps you from trusting God in the present is your 380 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:22,119 Speaker 1: attachment to the past. It's like when you've been in 381 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 1: Egypt too long and you've been gone for a month 382 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 1: and you start remembering it different than it really was. 383 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,119 Speaker 1: It's when it's a selective memory. I don't mean to 384 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 1: start any marital fights here, but sometimes even in a relationship, 385 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,440 Speaker 1: it can be a selective memory of what I said 386 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 1: and what you said. Well, that's what's happening here. It's 387 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,119 Speaker 1: a selective memory. It's like, watch this, what's what they 388 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,640 Speaker 1: say in the desert? They grumbled verse three. The Israelite 389 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 1: said to them, if only we had died by the 390 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: Lord's hand in Egypt. Remember they were crying God to 391 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 1: take them out of Egypt. But now they're saying, would 392 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 1: have been better to die there? Because there is the 393 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:07,159 Speaker 1: verse on the screen. Shout the word there there we 394 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:12,679 Speaker 1: sat around pots of meat. Yeah, when they weren't beating 395 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:17,120 Speaker 1: you with whips and working you twenty hours a day. Okay, 396 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 1: so fine. Egypt had a meal plan, but it was miserable. 397 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:33,919 Speaker 1: But you forget that and you choose familiarity over freedom. 398 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 1: Wish we were back in Egypt, big old pots of protein, 399 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: the Golden Corral, meat section of Egypt, pots of meat, 400 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 1: all the food we wanted. A buffet seven talking about Egypt. Now, 401 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: they gave you mud and made you make bricks without 402 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: enough straw, but you don't remember what they didn't give you. 403 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 1: An Egypt seven puts meal food we want to You 404 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 1: brought us out into this desert to starve the entire 405 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: assembly Toda. The people you try to help the most 406 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 1: will often turn on you. But that's a life advice. 407 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: That's not what the message is. Today. The Lord said 408 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 1: to Moses, all right, I'm gonna kill them all. Now 409 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 1: watch this. This is how you start out thinking God 410 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:31,399 Speaker 1: is this is This is for most of us. And 411 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:35,119 Speaker 1: I'm preaching in the South United States of America. We 412 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,200 Speaker 1: got churches all over. But you see, your first concept 413 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 1: of God, if you're introduced through religious system, is that 414 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:48,639 Speaker 1: God is You're not always pictured like Triton on the 415 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 1: Little Mermaid, like just zapping stuff, and sometimes he zaps 416 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: you and gives you a healing, but sometimes he zaps you, 417 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 1: gives you diarrhea just like he just and I'll be 418 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 1: scared of God like oh, I don't want to say that, 419 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 1: He might buzz me. And you start thinking of God 420 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 1: like that. But then Jesus comes along. He says, no, No, 421 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship 422 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 1: him in spirit and truth. I am the bread of life. 423 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,959 Speaker 1: The first thing I want to be identified with is 424 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 1: I provide for you. I am the bread of life. 425 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,239 Speaker 1: You start off thinking of God in this way, but 426 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 1: then over time you begin to see that grace is 427 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 1: really that good. And yet, if your attachment to the 428 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,719 Speaker 1: past in the way that you saw God as somebody 429 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: who was just to punish you and keep you in 430 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 1: line and make sure that you have no fun while 431 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: you're here on this planet, if that is your view 432 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,640 Speaker 1: of God, it is very difficult for you to progress 433 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:47,120 Speaker 1: in it until you need the grace of God, until 434 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 1: you get in a season where you can't do enough, 435 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:50,879 Speaker 1: and you get to a thing in your life that 436 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,439 Speaker 1: you can't overcome, and you get to a place in 437 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 1: your life where you can't clean it up, and you 438 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,199 Speaker 1: make a mess that so big that you end up 439 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 1: in the pig pen and you want to eat what 440 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,360 Speaker 1: the pigs eight and all you can do is come 441 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,479 Speaker 1: back home to your father. And then you see him 442 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 1: on the road and you're like, oh, the whole time 443 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,879 Speaker 1: I was away from you, this is what you were like. 444 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: You were waiting for me the whole time. But you don't. 445 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 1: You don't see that all at once. It's progressive, and 446 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:22,400 Speaker 1: so he gives them. Watch this grace for their grumbling. 447 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 1: They're not even praying correctly, and he still gives them 448 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: what they need. I will rain down bread from heaven 449 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,360 Speaker 1: for you. And this is how you're gonna deal with it. Okay, guys, 450 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna meet your needs. I'm gonna provide for you. 451 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 1: Here's how. Here's how you're to respond to my provision. 452 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,640 Speaker 1: Now listen closely. This is important. This applies to us. 453 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 1: It's not exactly the same for us because this is 454 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: a physical manifestation. Most of the ways that we see 455 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 1: God's provision through the Spirit of Christ is through the spiritual. 456 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 1: The tangible is important, but it's nothing compared to this spiritual. 457 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,119 Speaker 1: So this is how God provides peace and joy and 458 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,119 Speaker 1: contentment and faith and hope, and all of the stuff 459 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 1: that really matters, the stuff that doesn't perish, the stuff 460 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 1: that doesn't get moldy, the stuff that doesn't get old, 461 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 1: the stuff that you don't have to throw out after 462 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 1: three months, the stuff that last. He said, I'm gonna 463 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 1: give you. I'm gonna give you bread from heaven. The 464 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: people are to go out each day and gather enough 465 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 1: for that day. Somebody say enough. It's in the passage, 466 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,920 Speaker 1: he said, I want you to take enough for that day. 467 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,720 Speaker 1: In this way, I will test them to see whether 468 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 1: they will follow my instructions. I want to test them 469 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 1: to see if they trust me. I want to know 470 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: do you trust me? Do you trust me enough to 471 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 1: believe that I am enough? And do you believe that 472 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 1: if I am enough, so are you. Because if I'm 473 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: in you and I'm your God, and I made you 474 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 1: and I put you in a situation, I would never 475 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 1: put you in a situation that I would not make 476 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 1: you enough for shot. If it's your word, I'll give 477 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 1: you a minute, so he said. On the sixth day. Now, 478 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: as they get ready for the Sabbath, I want them 479 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: to prepare what they bring in, and that will be 480 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 1: twice as much as they gather on the other days 481 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 1: so that they don't have to work on the Sabbath. 482 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: But it was kind of a system that they set 483 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 1: up where it was like, get what you need for today. 484 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 1: Our father word in heaven. How about your name, you 485 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 1: candom come, you will be done on earth. This is 486 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 1: in heaven. Give us next week our daily bread, Give 487 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: us last month our daily bread. You see how it 488 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 1: can be two things. It can be your attachment to 489 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 1: the past where you remember what you used to eat 490 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: in Egypt. Or it can be your fixation on the future. 491 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 1: That's the second thing that keeps you from receiving God's 492 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 1: provision right now. Wish we were in Egypt there we 493 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 1: had see it and then and then when the Messiah comes, 494 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 1: then he will then there, back there, then one day 495 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:26,440 Speaker 1: back there. Then the provision is never then or there. 496 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 1: It is here and now the provision is always here. 497 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 1: The bread is always here. And what makes the bread 498 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 1: enough is who touches it. What made the bread multiply 499 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,479 Speaker 1: was when they put it in Jesus' hands. See, this 500 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 1: is the principle. It is your proximity to the presence 501 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: of Christ that becomes your provision for the challenges that 502 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 1: you face. And so if you stay close to Him, 503 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 1: even if it's in a wilderness, even if it's through 504 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: a mistake, even if it's insurmountable, even if you don't 505 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 1: know how, if you will stay close to Christ, your 506 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 1: bread will be blessed, and it will be enough, and 507 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 1: it will go around, and there will be twelve basketfuls 508 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 1: of leftovers. He is the bread of life. When they 509 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 1: set up the Tabernacle, they made a table with acacia 510 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 1: wood overlaid it with gold. The acacia wood is humanity, 511 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 1: the gold is divinity. They put twelve loaves of bread, 512 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: six stacks on each side, to represent the covenant that 513 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 1: God had with his people. Twelve loaves, twelve tribes, twelve disciples, 514 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 1: twelve basketfuls of leftovers. But they were not in the 515 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 1: Holy of Holies. They were only close to it. They 516 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,440 Speaker 1: were right outside that place. It was called the table 517 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 1: of show Bread, or watch this the bread of the presence, presence, 518 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:02,080 Speaker 1: the bread of the Presence. When it came into the temple, 519 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 1: it was bread. But when it got close enough to 520 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 1: the Holy of Holies, where the presence of God was, 521 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 1: it became blessed. The closer it got to the presence 522 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 1: of God, the less common it became. When it came 523 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 1: in it was just a loaf. But when it got 524 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 1: close enough to the Holy of Holies, where the presence 525 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,680 Speaker 1: of Yahweh is. See, I'm trying to say, you don't 526 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 1: have to be enough. All you have to do is 527 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:32,160 Speaker 1: get close enough to the one who is more than enough. 528 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:37,960 Speaker 1: And I declare, My God shall supply all your knees, 529 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 1: not one or two, not one day in the sleep, 530 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 1: by and bye. Here Now is the bread of life. 531 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 1: Where's my organ? Here? Now here is the bread. That's 532 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: what Jesus said. Here is the breath. Somebody shout here, 533 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:04,400 Speaker 1: here is the brad. It's not in tomorrow. You cannot 534 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 1: fight tomorrow's battles with today's strength. You are wasting today's 535 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 1: grace trying to fight tomorrow's battles. When we were talking 536 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,720 Speaker 1: about something yesterday, she said stop stop, stop, stops. She said, 537 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 1: she said, I'm getting maggots in my manner. I'm gonna 538 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 1: show you this. You're like, whoa, that's a weird thing. 539 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,720 Speaker 1: This is how y'all talk, this pillow talk around the 540 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,120 Speaker 1: fernic house. Matter of fact, it is because when I 541 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 1: preached it right. First thing is oh, man, the past, 542 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,160 Speaker 1: Oh like, I used to have so many friends, but 543 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:48,400 Speaker 1: now they've all, well, you just gotta leave Egypt. God 544 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 1: can bring you new friends. God might bring you some 545 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:57,400 Speaker 1: friends this time and they pick up the check. It 546 00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:07,960 Speaker 1: might be up. I don't know. But when in the wilderness, 547 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,839 Speaker 1: you gotta be able to trust and not be too 548 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,160 Speaker 1: attached to the past. And please don't quit your job 549 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,759 Speaker 1: over this message. I hate it. Everybody always hears what 550 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,120 Speaker 1: they want to hear. I'm talking about the paradigm of 551 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 1: the past Egypt thinking where they hand you your food. 552 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,399 Speaker 1: So God's like, here's I'm gonna do. I'm gonna rain 553 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,399 Speaker 1: down bread from heaven. And then it happened. He told 554 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,960 Speaker 1: Moses he was gonna do it. Then he did it. Now. 555 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,959 Speaker 1: First he gave him meat in the evening to remind 556 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:37,720 Speaker 1: them of Egypt. He's like, I'm not doing that anymore 557 00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:42,800 Speaker 1: from now on for the next thirty nine years. This 558 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,160 Speaker 1: what you're gonna eat. Now, when God switches the form 559 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,880 Speaker 1: of provision, your first instinct is going to be to 560 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:54,200 Speaker 1: resist it because you won't recognize it. When God starts 561 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,360 Speaker 1: doing new things in your life. At first, it'll just 562 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,840 Speaker 1: look like trouble, but you won't recognize it's really training. 563 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,799 Speaker 1: Send the crowds away. You can't deal with this. This 564 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 1: is unfamiliar, so they wake up. Let's go verse thirteen. 565 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,960 Speaker 1: I think that'll be enough. The evening quail came and 566 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,000 Speaker 1: covered the camp. In the morning, there was a layer 567 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 1: of dew around the camp. Bring me my box while 568 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,400 Speaker 1: I read this next verse. When the dew was gone, 569 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:29,799 Speaker 1: Bible said thin flakes like frost on the ground and 570 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,280 Speaker 1: appeared on the desert floor. Now I never saw Mana, 571 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:40,480 Speaker 1: but it said thin flakes like frost. I was just 572 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:45,640 Speaker 1: picturing the Bible. I never ate Mana, but it said 573 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:52,920 Speaker 1: thin flakes like frost. Touch somebody say they're great, but 574 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,280 Speaker 1: he put it. Can you do it on the camera? 575 00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:59,360 Speaker 1: And the people were like, huh, never saw this before. 576 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,840 Speaker 1: I mean, we know how to eat in Egypt. In Egypt, 577 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:14,400 Speaker 1: we had a meal card. But sometimes you don't know 578 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:18,040 Speaker 1: how to receive something that God has given you, because 579 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,160 Speaker 1: when you've never seen it, it's hard to receive it. 580 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,560 Speaker 1: Do you ever wonder why you sabotage yourself sometimes when 581 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:32,160 Speaker 1: you're starting to succeed at something, because when frustration and 582 00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:38,200 Speaker 1: failure is familiar to you, you will recreate it without 583 00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 1: even knowing that you're doing it. Sometimes we surround ourselves 584 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:49,520 Speaker 1: with people who treat us crappy because being treated crappy 585 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:55,799 Speaker 1: to us is emotionally familiar. So when somebody treats you nice, 586 00:36:55,840 --> 00:37:06,160 Speaker 1: you're suspicious what do they want? And like for me, 587 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,239 Speaker 1: I have a hard time believing that people could just 588 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:15,840 Speaker 1: like me. It's hard for me to believe because I 589 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,200 Speaker 1: think at some point during my life I was like, well, 590 00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:22,480 Speaker 1: if I preach good, or you know, if I can 591 00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:25,840 Speaker 1: generate a job, like I have all these staff members 592 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,319 Speaker 1: that I'm responsible for. So there's this feeling like you 593 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,680 Speaker 1: start thinking you're the bread after a while, and you 594 00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:34,560 Speaker 1: start thinking if it wasn't for what you did. So 595 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,520 Speaker 1: then when somebody tries to really love you for who 596 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:40,560 Speaker 1: you are, you're like, h hold on, now this is 597 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,600 Speaker 1: too close. And watch this. When the bread came from 598 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:47,440 Speaker 1: heaven that God was trying to provide, and it rained 599 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,719 Speaker 1: down and covered the ground, Look at the Israelite's reaction 600 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,560 Speaker 1: when they saw it verse fifteen. They said to each other, 601 00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,880 Speaker 1: what is it? They did not know what it was. 602 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:06,120 Speaker 1: They never saw it before. Some of us are resisting 603 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,319 Speaker 1: the resource that God is sending into our life at 604 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,920 Speaker 1: this moment, because we do not recognize it as His 605 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:18,000 Speaker 1: presence and his provision. Some of us right now have 606 00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,600 Speaker 1: what we have been asking God for in a form 607 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,920 Speaker 1: that we don't recognize. That is before us. And the 608 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,760 Speaker 1: trick is this, that God will give you this day 609 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:34,560 Speaker 1: your daily bread, not there in Egypt, not then when 610 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:40,360 Speaker 1: Messiah comes. But here is the bread. I am the breadth, 611 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,560 Speaker 1: the bread of presence. Is this, God give me the 612 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,200 Speaker 1: grace in this moment now. If I try to reach 613 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,319 Speaker 1: back to my past mistake, I'll miss it. If I 614 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,560 Speaker 1: try to reach forward into my future and fixate on 615 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,560 Speaker 1: that and try to plan everything out, I will miss it. 616 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,960 Speaker 1: But here is the bread. That's the word. Here is 617 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,399 Speaker 1: the bread. Somebody say, here, here is the bread. Look 618 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,280 Speaker 1: at the person next to you say, here is the bread. 619 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,799 Speaker 1: And so you're pointing to the provision and you're going, 620 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,319 Speaker 1: what is it. In fact, the reason they called it 621 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,919 Speaker 1: mana is because in Hebrew, manna is an ambidextrous term. 622 00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,520 Speaker 1: It means what is it, and it also means what 623 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,640 Speaker 1: it is, So they didn't know what to call it 624 00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:25,080 Speaker 1: because it was new. When God does something new, in 625 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:28,759 Speaker 1: your life. At first, you don't know what to call 626 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:32,360 Speaker 1: it or how to receive it. And what keeps you 627 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:36,480 Speaker 1: from receiving it. Sometimes is your past and sometimes is 628 00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:40,560 Speaker 1: your future. So they named it mana. What is it? 629 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,560 Speaker 1: What it is? What is it? I don't know is 630 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,160 Speaker 1: what it is? But I know one thing I know. 631 00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:50,239 Speaker 1: I am so whatever it is, I am is in 632 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,320 Speaker 1: the middle of it, working it out for a purpose 633 00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:58,960 Speaker 1: that is beyond my human perspective. Here is the bread. 634 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:04,359 Speaker 1: Here is the bread. And then some of them thought 635 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,680 Speaker 1: they were smarter than God, you know, because the Bible 636 00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:11,480 Speaker 1: says when they saw it, even though they didn't recognize it, 637 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,879 Speaker 1: Moses said to them. He explained, it is the bread 638 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,319 Speaker 1: that the Lord has given you to eat. And this 639 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,640 Speaker 1: is what the Lord has commanded. Each one is to 640 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:27,000 Speaker 1: gather as much as he needs. It's the power of enough. 641 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,280 Speaker 1: Each one is to gather as much as he needs. 642 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,560 Speaker 1: Taken omer, half a gallon for each person you have 643 00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:41,719 Speaker 1: in your tent. And the Israelites did as they were told, 644 00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:46,360 Speaker 1: give us this day our daily bread. Some gathered much, 645 00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,640 Speaker 1: some little, And when they measured it by the omer, 646 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:55,200 Speaker 1: he who gathered much did not have too much. I 647 00:40:55,320 --> 00:41:01,560 Speaker 1: like that it's not too much. It's enough. I am 648 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,920 Speaker 1: the bread of life. It didn't have too much, And 649 00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,399 Speaker 1: he who gathered little did not have too little. It 650 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:13,480 Speaker 1: was enough. It's enough. Somebody say it's enough, make the confession, 651 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:17,480 Speaker 1: say it's enough. And just all over every area of 652 00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,759 Speaker 1: your life where the enemy has been speaking too much 653 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,800 Speaker 1: or not enough. I want you to look at whatever 654 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:24,400 Speaker 1: God put in the ground in the form of his 655 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,560 Speaker 1: grace and his provision in this season enough your life, 656 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:31,840 Speaker 1: and declare, it's enough. He's enough. I'm enough. It's enough. 657 00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,920 Speaker 1: He's enough. I'm enough. Get the lesson to your neighbor. 658 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:40,480 Speaker 1: It's enough, he's enough. I'm enough. Now. The reason I'm 659 00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,799 Speaker 1: enough is because he's enough. And so if he's enough 660 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,719 Speaker 1: and I'm enough, it's enough. It's not too much, it's 661 00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:50,120 Speaker 1: not too little. It's enough. But some of the Israelites, 662 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:52,920 Speaker 1: some of them look at verse nineteen. No one is 663 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,359 Speaker 1: to keep any of it till morning. Some of them 664 00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:59,080 Speaker 1: paid no attention to Moses. They kept a part of 665 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,200 Speaker 1: it until the morning. But what's what happened in the morning. 666 00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:07,640 Speaker 1: In the morning, because they did not trust God to 667 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:15,920 Speaker 1: give them enough for today? Who the man I had maggots, 668 00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:24,760 Speaker 1: because God's presence and provision is always in today. Your stress, 669 00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:32,200 Speaker 1: your ulcer, your your your sleeplessness. Much of it is 670 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:36,480 Speaker 1: because you are letting maggots get in your manna. See, 671 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,279 Speaker 1: here's what happens. So Bob turns to Judy and he's, 672 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,560 Speaker 1: like Moses said, there'd be more in the morning, but 673 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:44,879 Speaker 1: maybe just in case, put a little of that right 674 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,759 Speaker 1: there in your pocketbook, and just in case. You know, 675 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:49,680 Speaker 1: we can't eat all of it today because we've never 676 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,319 Speaker 1: seen this before, and it's hard to trust that there 677 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:56,480 Speaker 1: will be enough for tomorrow. But that's exactly what faith is, 678 00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:01,000 Speaker 1: you see it. That's exactly what faith it is. It 679 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:05,279 Speaker 1: is to deal with today and to trust for tomorrow. 680 00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:12,000 Speaker 1: Strength for today, bright hope for tomorrow. Blessings all mine 681 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:17,360 Speaker 1: with ten thousand beside. Great is thy faithfulness, Great is 682 00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:22,160 Speaker 1: thy faithfulness. Morning by morning. When I wake up tomorrow, 683 00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,640 Speaker 1: there will be manna. When I wake up Tuesday, there 684 00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:29,480 Speaker 1: will be more when I wake up Wednesday. In my weakness, 685 00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:33,080 Speaker 1: he is strong. When I wake up Thursday, He'll see 686 00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:36,880 Speaker 1: me through. When I wake up Friday, He's fighting for me. 687 00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,279 Speaker 1: And I can rest on the Sabbath because He is 688 00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:48,880 Speaker 1: the Bread, and I break the spirit of not enough 689 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:53,400 Speaker 1: off of your life. Today. I break the spirit of 690 00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:56,600 Speaker 1: I can't and I'll never I break that spirit. In 691 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,719 Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. Here is the bread. He is 692 00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:08,799 Speaker 1: the bread, and He's given you right now an opportunity 693 00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:14,719 Speaker 1: to trust him on the next level and to discover 694 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:22,919 Speaker 1: who he is all over again. He doesn't change. It's 695 00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:26,080 Speaker 1: just the more you experience where you're in a desert 696 00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:32,200 Speaker 1: place and when Lazarus dies and you wonder why would 697 00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:35,840 Speaker 1: God let something die that you love? But then you 698 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:39,160 Speaker 1: see him show up and call Lazarus out of the tomb. 699 00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,880 Speaker 1: Because you already knew that he was a healer, but 700 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:46,080 Speaker 1: now he wants to show you I am resurrection. You 701 00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:51,040 Speaker 1: understand that everything in your life is designed to show 702 00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,759 Speaker 1: you not only who God is, but who you are 703 00:44:54,760 --> 00:45:00,400 Speaker 1: in Him. Now. The reason He lets us need things 704 00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:03,359 Speaker 1: is so that we don't get confused about where our 705 00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:08,000 Speaker 1: help comes from. The reason he wants you to get 706 00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:14,200 Speaker 1: it every morning, all those little plans you stay up making, 707 00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:16,600 Speaker 1: all those little things you scribble down about what if 708 00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,160 Speaker 1: and what this, and that the stuff that's gonna screw 709 00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,560 Speaker 1: up your life is going to hit you from behind anyway, 710 00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:27,839 Speaker 1: pray about it, praise God through it. You can't keep 711 00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:31,720 Speaker 1: the man until tomorrow. You can't eat in Egypt anymore. 712 00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:33,840 Speaker 1: This is a new place, This is a new season. 713 00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,560 Speaker 1: God has given you what you need for the season 714 00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:41,160 Speaker 1: you're in. Here is the bread. Here is the bread. 715 00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,120 Speaker 1: So in every moment I'm looking for it. Oh, here 716 00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,719 Speaker 1: is the bread. There I go again, going out here 717 00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:51,200 Speaker 1: thinking about here is the bread. Here I am again 718 00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,160 Speaker 1: replaying five minutes ago, five months ago. Five no, no, no, 719 00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,280 Speaker 1: Here is the breath. Somebody say, here is the bread. 720 00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,960 Speaker 1: When I put this message online, I'm gonna call it expiration, 721 00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,160 Speaker 1: but you know the real messages. Here is the bread. 722 00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:07,720 Speaker 1: Stop trying to eat stuff that has gone sour. Stop 723 00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:11,160 Speaker 1: thinking in ways that you have outgrown. Stop coming down 724 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,919 Speaker 1: to a level of who you used to be. Here 725 00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:22,960 Speaker 1: is the bread, the bread of the presence. Stand up. 726 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:28,040 Speaker 1: I want to pray for people. Oh. I want you 727 00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:31,880 Speaker 1: to get this message. I don't want you to chew it. 728 00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,120 Speaker 1: I want you to swallow it, digest it, get it 729 00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:36,880 Speaker 1: deep down so it can strengthen you. Here is the bread. 730 00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:39,759 Speaker 1: The presence of God is everywhere. It just takes you 731 00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:43,040 Speaker 1: a while to recognize it. He's always been there. You're 732 00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:46,040 Speaker 1: just starting to see him now. You start to see 733 00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:50,439 Speaker 1: that he was there in the heartbreak, he was there 734 00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:54,919 Speaker 1: in your childhood. You see him now. He was always there. 735 00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:00,160 Speaker 1: Remember when they walked down the MIAs road, they were like, hey, 736 00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:03,680 Speaker 1: who are you? And he didn't tell him he was 737 00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:06,479 Speaker 1: resurrected from the dead Luke twenty four. And it says 738 00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:10,280 Speaker 1: they were kept from recognizing him until he did something 739 00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:15,640 Speaker 1: with the bread, and when he broke it, they saw him. 740 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:19,719 Speaker 1: He is what he hell, and he is what you need. 741 00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,040 Speaker 1: He doesn't just have what you need. He is what 742 00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:25,319 Speaker 1: you need. He's that thing inside of you that won't 743 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:31,239 Speaker 1: let you give up. He is that invisible that that wonderful, 744 00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:36,560 Speaker 1: nameless grace that turns horrible things like the cross into 745 00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:41,160 Speaker 1: a triumph called resurrection. He is the bread and he 746 00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:43,680 Speaker 1: is providing for you right now. But you might not 747 00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,920 Speaker 1: see it because it looks different than what you're used 748 00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:51,839 Speaker 1: to get. What you need, gather it, Gather it from 749 00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,960 Speaker 1: the people that are in your life. I know sometimes 750 00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:59,479 Speaker 1: you get lonely. I do too. Oh you pastor you're 751 00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:02,160 Speaker 1: assuming people come on. It's different to talk to people 752 00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:07,319 Speaker 1: than be with people. Everybody gets lonely. But here is 753 00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:12,080 Speaker 1: the bread. Here is the bread. Father. To the best 754 00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:15,040 Speaker 1: of my ability, I broke the bread today. You are 755 00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:18,280 Speaker 1: the bread. I'm not. You know what they need. I don't, 756 00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:24,320 Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, I pray that you would do that supernatural 757 00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:26,279 Speaker 1: thing that I've seen you do so many times I 758 00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:30,680 Speaker 1: lost count where you take what was said and make 759 00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:36,240 Speaker 1: it exactly what each person needed to hear, whatever continent 760 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,680 Speaker 1: they stream from, whatever campus they drove to make it 761 00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:44,319 Speaker 1: the bread that they need for this season. So if 762 00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,920 Speaker 1: it means that they're dealing with new pressure for success, 763 00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,879 Speaker 1: be the bread. If it means that they're dealing with 764 00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:54,879 Speaker 1: failure or rejection, be the bread. Feed them what they 765 00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:59,919 Speaker 1: need for the season that they're in. Our Father, who 766 00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:05,200 Speaker 1: in heaven, Hallow it be your name, Sacred, be your name, 767 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:10,359 Speaker 1: Holy is your name. As our bread gets closer and 768 00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:14,480 Speaker 1: closer to your presence, may it multiply, May it multiply 769 00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:21,040 Speaker 1: in your hands. Give us this day, this moment, this second, 770 00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:27,680 Speaker 1: this bread, our daily bread. Thank you for joining us. 771 00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,520 Speaker 1: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 772 00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:34,080 Speaker 1: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 773 00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,680 Speaker 1: You can click the link in the description to give 774 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:40,960 Speaker 1: now or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more 775 00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:44,760 Speaker 1: information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 776 00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,120 Speaker 1: You can share it with your friends. You can click 777 00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:49,360 Speaker 1: the share button, take a screenshot and share it on 778 00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,279 Speaker 1: your social stories and tag us at Elevation Church. Thanks 779 00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:58,719 Speaker 1: again for listening. God bless you.